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<h4 class="subsection">9.44.2 TIC6X Syntax</h4>

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<p>The presence of a &lsquo;<samp>;</samp>&rsquo; on a line indicates the start of a comment
that extends to the end of the current line.  If a &lsquo;<samp>#</samp>&rsquo; or
&lsquo;<samp>*</samp>&rsquo; appears as the first character of a line, the whole line is
treated as a comment.  Note that if a line starts with a &lsquo;<samp>#</samp>&rsquo;
character then it can also be a logical line number directive
(see <a href="Comments.html#Comments">Comments</a>) or a preprocessor control command
(see <a href="Preprocessing.html#Preprocessing">Preprocessing</a>).
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<p>The &lsquo;<samp>@</samp>&rsquo; character can be used instead of a newline to separate
statements.
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<p>Instruction, register and functional unit names are case-insensitive.
<code>as</code> requires fully-specified functional unit names,
such as &lsquo;<samp>.S1</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>.L1X</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>.D1T2</samp>&rsquo;, on all instructions
using a functional unit.
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<p>For some instructions, there may be syntactic ambiguity between
register or functional unit names and the names of labels or other
symbols.  To avoid this, enclose the ambiguous symbol name in
parentheses; register and functional unit names may not be enclosed in
parentheses.
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